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    submitted 10 months ago by Unyieldingly@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] udon@lemmy.world 108 points 10 months ago

    Actually the Arch penguins jump happily on their own

    [–] takeda@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Arch? That's so 2020. With NixOS you can just rollback if you make a mistake.

    https://i.redd.it/tlmg36zoel671.png

    I use NixOS BTW.

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You can do that with any distro and BTRFS.

    [–] takeda@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That's just a snapshot. What NixOS allows you to create configuration that will deploy your OS configured the way you like, possibly post it on places like GitHub deeply a new machine confused the exact same way.

    You can even do something like this: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

    You can do the same with void-mklive. Boot, install, you have the same system that is on the live USB on your HDD/SSD.

    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    I've never used btrfs. Can you give an example of an error and how it is corrected?

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Nah man, 3 months ago i had fedora 38 btrfs, timeshift refused to work because subvolumes wasn't done, but i installed everything in auto gui mode, i did them by the manual after installation, timeshift started working just fine, a week further update to fedora 39 came, i updated, everything broke because of subvolumes, i loaded fedora recovery mode from grub, tried to roll back with timeshift btrfs, it rolled back to 38 but everything was still broke, and more over, whole ssd with this installation became locked, had to recover data from completely locked up ssd, in the middle of the process it locked even further, so i couldn't even copy some files when disk was connected as external

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

    Have no idea what RH did that would do that during an update.

    I manually set up BTRFS every time, haven't had any problems. But, I use Void, not Fedora.

    [–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    NixOS ended up disappointing me a fair bit. I just tried it recently and the KDE support seems very rough so far, or at least I couldn't find good answers to how to configure it and theme it.

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    kde theming is pretty much independent of your distro tho?

    [–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    One of the main draw of NixOs is the reproducibility of builds, meaning that redoing the build will provide the exact same output each time, so Nix encourages you to make configuration changes through the package manager. I've mostly overcome my theming woes with home-manager now, but this comment was speaking to a little wrinkle I had when I was trying to learn and take advantage of the OS's features as best I could.

    [–] takeda@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Home manager is the way to do it though.

    The main configuration handles configuration of the system, home manager project was created to bring similar functionality for the user home directory. That's where the name comes from.

    Home manager also works great when using Nix on other systems to manage for files, for example on OS X.

    [–] neonred@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    nix-env / nix-channels / nix profile / homemanager ?

    [–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

    Please don't post reddit links.

    I can never look at them, since they apparently block mullvad.

    [–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Hannah Montana users be up in the Everest.

    [–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Why mess with perfection?

    [–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

    Ewno.

    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Debian Bookworms REPRESENT!

    Also ... you know ... try to see if you can push another penguin in

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

    You misspelled Sid

    [–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

    I'm glad they got the order right. I feel like gentoo should be piloting a nuclear submarine targeting the Orca though.

    [–] nUbee@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

    Maybe things have changed since I've last tried it (10 years or so), but I thought Fedora Rawhide was at the most bleeding edge of experimental packages.

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    What happened?

    [–] Unyieldingly@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It Broke far to many times, I used Arch Linux for about 5 years or longer, systemd fixed a lot of stuff, and some of the other changes, but i needed a more production stable system.

    I use ZFS Bootmenu with Debian Stable+flatpak and some backports these days and so for i only broke my system once.

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Oh, I thought there was some large change on the distro.

    I can relate. I've kept to the top of the hill for decades already.

    [–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I agree, KDE is totally broken in old TVs. So I have to live without power management no blanking and no suspension lol...

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    sorry, wait, back up, did you manage to install a desktop Linux environment on a TV

    [–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

    No lol I just connected an old TV CHHWJT on my PC. Not old at all 7950x 7900xt and powerdevil is broken

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    what about debian sid

    [–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Sid users are just future arch users but without time for a clean reinstall.

    [–] neonred@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Is "I use Debian sid btw" a meme now? Please? 🥺

    Because "sid + nix" is currently a really nice experience for me.

    [–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    What is the second icon?

    [–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I think it’s flatpak?

    [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    yep

    [–] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

    Uuh, so close to the water <_<

    [–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

    Flatpak? What?

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

    As an Arch user you just push other Arch users in. It's kinda how as a Windows user you set that checkbox that says smth like "update me ASAP" on other people's windows install, so they get used as bugtesting sheep instead of you.

    Also I use Garuda and they setup snapshots for me as I don't know how any of that works.